Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Justice Department was engaging in “election interference” after special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the former president.  Smith’s indictment, which comes after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, accuses Trump of two felony counts of obstructing an official proceeding, one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and one felony count of conspiracy against rights.  In a post on X, Trump said that the revised indictment amounted to “election interference” because mail-in ballots are about to be cast in North Carolina.  “It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action,” he said. “Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election Interference. All of these Comrade Kamala/Biden Hoaxes should be immediately DISMISSED!” It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action. Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2024 In an earlier post on Truth Social, Trump said that the revised indictment was “a direct assault on democracy.” “This is an unprecedented abuse of the Criminal Justice System. The case has to do with ‘Conspiracy to Obstruct the 2020 Presidential Election,’ when they are the ones that did the obstructing of the Election, not me,” he said. “They cheated on the Election, and they go after me for ‘cheating on the Election.’ Interestingly, this comes at the exact same time as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has admitted to concealing massive amounts of information, such as Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell, which is a direct acknowledgment that the 2020 Presidential Election was MANIPULATED and RIGGED by the DOJ. What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Smith’s office said that the indictment had been revised in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States, which said that presidents cannot be prosecuted for exercising core constitutional powers and are entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts. “The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States,” the special counsel’s office claimed. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacted to the news of the revised indictment by saying that the Biden-Harris administration was weaponizing the DOJ. “Donald Trump continues to be the most persecuted politician in the history of our country. Today, after getting two of his cases thrown out by the courts, Jack Smith is grasping at straws once again,” he said. “Just 70 days before the election, Smith has brought yet another bogus indictment. Americans are sick of this corruption and shameless lawfare. They know this is not about justice, but about politics.”

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A viral image shared on X purports to show a statement from Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison disparaging conservatives. Lowe’s went and got woke. pic.twitter.com/7K5p0V6DSn — Scarlet (@SuzyLiberty2) August 24, 2024 Verdict: False The claim is false. A CNBC spokesperson denied the network had aired the X image featuring the purported remark from Ellison. Ellison’s actual […]

Montrose was formed in 1973 in California by guitarist Ronnie Montrose. Known for their powerful, guitar-driven sound, Montrose released four studio albums during their original run, including their self-titled debut, Montrose (1973), which is often regarded as one of the greatest hard rock albums of the 1970s. Despite numerous lineup changes, the band was known for its influential and iconic sound, fronted initially by vocalist Sammy Hagar. Montrose disbanded in 1977 but briefly reunited in 1987. Over the years, the band underwent multiple lineup changes with a revolving door of talented musicians who contributed to its legacy, though they never The post Complete List Of Montrose Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

It seems reasonable that a program designed to assist those with low incomes should go only to low-income households. But the Biden-Harris administration is using a dubious mechanism to get around that expectation in a program designed to help low-income families pay for broadband internet service. Congress created the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to provide broadband internet assistance to low-income households. The program was supposed to last six months, but Congress made it permanent in 2021, renaming it the Affordable Connectivity Program and allocating nearly five times the original funding. Although funding for the Federal Communications Commission program ran out in the first half of this year, Congress is working to renew it. To qualify, households must show that they are low income. One way to demonstrate this: A household receives benefits from another means-tested welfare program such as the Lifeline Program or the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provide assistance with phone service and internet service, respectively. Another way to show eligibility: A member of the household receives a Pell Grant or is in a school lunch or breakfast program. Eligibility through school meal programs is how the Federal Communications Commission is doing an end run around income limits for the broadband program. This is because of something called the Community Eligibility Provision that was included in legislation, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, signed into law by President Barack Obama.   The Community Eligibility Provision allows any school to provide meals to all students if just 25% of the students come from low-income households. The provision also allows an entire school district to qualify for free school meals if 25% of students in the district are from low-income homes. (Originally, 40% of students in a school or district had to be from low-income households to qualify for the Community Eligibility Provision, but the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Agriculture last year dropped the threshold to 25%.)   USDA also allows districts to group schools together as they see fit to meet the 25% threshold, even though the underlying law doesn’t permit districts to gerrymander in this way. In grouping schools, for example, a district could bring together four schools, two with 50% of children from low-income households and two others with no children from low-income households. All children in the four schools would qualify for free meals under the Community Eligibility Provision, because this grouping would meet the 25% threshold even though two schools don’t have a single student from a poor household. The Community Eligibility Provision is bad policy because it provides free school meals to students who don’t need financial assistance. And in some cases, this could happen when all or most students involved are from high-income homes. And now, the Federal Communications Commission is using the same provision to extend government assistance for broadband service to any household with a child who attends a school that meets the provision. It doesn’t matter whether the household is a low-income one or not. Like free school meals under the Community Eligibility Provision, you could have a school where all the students are from high-income homes yet all their families qualify for broadband assistance. And this despite benefits for both the meals and broadband programs being intended for low-income households. On top of this, it’s not clear the FCC has authority to qualify households for the Affordable Connectivity Program through a child’s being enrolled in an eligible school. The law creating the broadband program states that a household qualifies for the benefit if “at least one member of the household has applied for and been approved to receive benefits under the free and reduced-price lunch program … or the school breakfast program.” But the Community Eligibility Provision doesn’t require families to apply for school meals or go through an approval process for a child to qualify. In fact, one rationale for CEP, as it’s called, is that the provision eliminates the application process. The Federal Communications Commission provided flyers that schools may use to promote the Affordable Connectivity Program to families, specifically advertising that having a child in a school with “community eligibility” is sufficient for a household to qualify for the government’s broadband assistance. Survey data from the FCC indicates that many people enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program likely don’t need it: Fully 30% of participants said they had both home internet and mobile internet in the year before they enrolled. And 30% of participating households also said they were never without internet because they couldn’t afford it in any of the preceding 12 months before they got on the program. The FCC report doesn’t say whether families enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program through “community eligibility” were more likely to fall into these two groups. What is clear, though, is that the Community Eligibility Provision allows people to get on the broadband program regardless of their income level.   Program rolls for the Affordable Connectivity Program have grown substantially over the past two years, jumping from 9 million households in January 2022 to over 23 million households as of February 2024. If this broadband welfare program continues, Congress should clearly state that households can’t qualify for it through the Community Eligibility Provision. Even without congressional action, the FCC could clarify that having a child in a “community eligibility” school doesn’t qualify a household for the broadband benefit. The government’s welfare system needs substantial reform. It should be obvious that programs explicitly designed to provide benefits to low-income Americans should provide those benefits only to low-income households. Government agencies shouldn’t run programs according to their own whims. Using taxpayer dollars to subsidize households that aren’t in need is a waste of resources and undermines the purpose of means-tested programs. The post Biden-Harris Admin Uses Loopholes to Expand Welfare Benefits, Again appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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